The food policy at Nordfyns Folk High School


The Food Policy of Nordfyn’s Folk High School
The overall objectives about the food policy are:
- To create and support healthy eating habits for students, participants and employees in order to improve health and wellness
- To prevent future food related illnesses
- To promote the working performance for students, participants and employees through more energy and better concentration
The points of reference are the 8 advices of healthy food to remind one of a proper balance between food and physical activities.
The 8 food advices are:
- Eat fruit and vegetables – 6 a day
- Eat fish and fish spread – several times a week
- Eat potatoes, rice or pasta and coarse bread every day
- Go easy on sugar – particularly soft drinks, sweets and cakes
- Go easy on fat – particularly from dairy products and meat
- Eat a varied diet and keep your standard weight
- Quench your thirst with water
- Do physical exercise – at least 30 minutes a day
Raw materials
- The food must be fresh, well prepared and nutritious
- The food should preferably be made from unprocessed raw materials and seasonal fruit and vegetables. We aim to avoid fully or partly pre-prepared food
- We focus on encouraging students to eat fruit, vegetables and fish and to reduce consumption of fat, particularly the saturated fat.
- It will always be possible to put together a healthy meal. Less nutritious food will be limited and kept for special occasions.
The daily offers in the dining hall:
- To ensure variation we serve poultry, pork, beef, fish and vegetarian dishes at least once a week
- A big fresh salad bar is available
- Freshly baked coarse bread every day
- As little fat as possible is used
- Liquid vegetable oil replaces margarine and butter
- Meat and dairy products have a low contents of fat
We serve dietary food and food according to ethnic background